working on a new door quilt

half paper half fabric, halfway through the process.

Coffee Cake Recipe

Warm and Wonderful Coffee Cake

1 egg

½ Cup Milk

2 Tbs Vegetable Oil

½ Cup Sugar

1 Cup Flour

2 tsp baking powder

½ tsp Salt

Topping

½ Cup Brown Sugar

1 tsp Cinnamon

1 Tbs Flour

1 Tbs melted Butter

½ Cup Nuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Grease an 8 inch square pan.  Beat egg and milk together and Add oil.  Blend dry ingredients and add to egg mixture.  Mix until well blended.  Pour into greased pan and add topping. Bake 25-35 minutes. 

Tiny Crazy blocks

My Tiny Crazy Quilts

I had to wait to post these picture.  My Daughters birthday present. 

The two crazy quilt blocks are only 2 inches square.  I did a photo on fabric for the centers.  I found a glass pendant to place the two small pieces in.  Now she can wear her crazy quilt. 

Vintage Photo's on Fabric

I have been working with some vintage photo printing on cotton.  Centered the pictures in a Wonky Log Cabin style block. 

My Granny in the Top Photo, Her mother in the center Photo and Granny with siblings on the bottom photo.  

I have added a border and started some embellishing with rust dye lace.  Wonder what else I will do. 

Proof Reader

My Little Helper Calli, this time she is proofreading my 

Half Square Triangle Book

 Oops, by the look on her face I think she found a mistake.

In the PInes

Next Up Original Sewing and Quilting Expo Raleigh NC

I designed this cute Wall Hanging using my Half Square Triangle Techniques.  Stage Demo at the Expo.  

See Ya There !!! 

Waffle Test

Using my Mom's Old waffle iron, I have been testing waffle recipes.  Buttermilk seems to be the Hubby's favorite. 

Color Testing

working with some possible new colors of Karen pharr studios textile paints. See anything you like?

Photo Quilt

Making New look old again.

I love this quilt, fun pictures but they are not old, I used a Sepia tone to print them giving them a vintage look.  For fabrics I chose off white, and black w/ cream or tan.  

Printing on fabric is so easy now with prepared printables, load in your inkjet printer and print. 

The quilt design is from my Crazy shuffle book, it has great blocks for replacing prints with Photo's

Tree of Life

Just got this one sewn together.  My tree of Life, pattern and kit are going to Greensboro NC this weekend.

Maybe I will see You there. 

Cinda's Circles

Come see Cinda's Circle in person at the Original Sewing and Quilting Expo this weekend in Worcester, MA.  Just another show or two and it will retire permanently to my Studio Wall.

Our for a ride, the Crazy Quilt stick horse was perfect entertainment while Mom shopped in the booth.

Stained Glass Jacket

Love the way this Came together.  

I painted the fabric with my shimmer paints using my Stained Glass method and my dear friend and wonderful teacher Judy Kessinger created this jacket. 

Check out your chance to create your own from beginning to end at our Retreat. 

Aug 28, 29 &30

http://www.karenpharr.citymax.com/jacketworkshop.html

Organizing the Studio

When folding fabric to go on the shelf I use my six inch ruler and wrap the fabric around it. After wrapping, the fabric easily slides off the ruler. I then fold this in half. This creates a perfect size fold to fit on my shelf.

For more studio tips visit my YouTUBE channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/karenpharrstudios

Love those Handles

This set of handles have been hanging around in my studio for a while.  I love the handles and new I needed to design something to fit them.  I am now down to okay, I have the bag sorta done in muslin, I have created some really pretty crazy blocks. I need a little more fabric to accent the side and bottom  of the bag.  This ended up being a bit harder task than I thought.  I will simply blame it on the handles.